Charlie Gordon is a mentally retarded adult. He works in Donner's Bakery for one of his uncle's friends. He is recommended by his teacher Miss Kinnian to these scientists, Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss, to try this experiment on him that will triple his intelligence level. They have never tried it on a human before, only on animals and, they finally got it to work on a mouse named Algernon. Charlie starts to go to this laboratory and starts taking all of these tests. He races this mouse through this maze and plays mind games and brain teasers with the mouse. He always loses, but ends up making friends with Algernon. Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss decide that Charlie will be the one to do the operation on. He is asked to write these progress reports."And he said that meens Im doing something grate for sience and Ill be famus and my name will go down in the books. I dont care so much about beeing famus. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me." (Keyes). Is an example of one report. The whole book is told through these progress reports. You can s see, throughout the book, his spelling and grammar is getting better. Soon he becomes extremely smart and realizes that his "friends" at the bakery are not his friends. They make fun of him all the time and mess with him but he has never been smart enough to realize it.He decides to run away and get an apartment, after he is fired, in New York. Charlie starts to have relations with his neighbor Fay Lillman. He starts to find out that Dr. Strauss' calculations were off and Algernon starts to slowly deteriorate and eventually dies. He now starts to wonder what will happen to him. At the end of the book Charlie regressed almost completely to his original state.
Why is this book outstanding?
Flowers for Algernon is an outstanding books for many reasons. It shows never to give up. This book is emotional and inspirational. This book could inspire people do overcome difficulties in their life, or work hard at something that might not be what you are the best in.
I recommend this book to....
People that are think they have it hard so they quit. If they read this book maybe they will realize if they tried maybe they could achieve whatever it is that is making them quit.
Work cited:
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. April 1959.
FLowers for Algernon
By: Daniel KeyesSummary:
Charlie Gordon is a mentally retarded adult. He works in Donner's Bakery for one of his uncle's friends. He is recommended by his teacher Miss Kinnian to these scientists, Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss, to try this experiment on him that will triple his intelligence level. They have never tried it on a human before, only on animals and, they finally got it to work on a mouse named Algernon. Charlie starts to go to this laboratory and starts taking all of these tests. He races this mouse through this maze and plays mind games and brain teasers with the mouse. He always loses, but ends up making friends with Algernon. Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss decide that Charlie will be the one to do the operation on. He is asked to write these progress reports."And he said that meens Im doing something grate for sience and Ill be famus and my name will go down in the books. I dont care so much about beeing famus. I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me." (Keyes). Is an example of one report. The whole book is told through these progress reports. You can s see, throughout the book, his spelling and grammar is getting better. Soon he becomes extremely smart and realizes that his "friends" at the bakery are not his friends. They make fun of him all the time and mess with him but he has never been smart enough to realize it.He decides to run away and get an apartment, after he is fired, in New York. Charlie starts to have relations with his neighbor Fay Lillman. He starts to find out that Dr. Strauss' calculations were off and Algernon starts to slowly deteriorate and eventually dies. He now starts to wonder what will happen to him. At the end of the book Charlie regressed almost completely to his original state.
Why is this book outstanding?
Flowers for Algernon is an outstanding books for many reasons. It shows never to give up. This book is emotional and inspirational. This book could inspire people do overcome difficulties in their life, or work hard at something that might not be what you are the best in.
I recommend this book to....
People that are think they have it hard so they quit. If they read this book maybe they will realize if they tried maybe they could achieve whatever it is that is making them quit.
Work cited:
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. April 1959.